Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-04-11

Que 10 the early fortunes maze III the
ranch business. Those days are past.
The man who makes money on the ranch
to-day, must work for it quite as hard rs
the eastern farmer. Let the Improvement
continue, and let the profits of the bust
ness be shared by the mass OF farmers
generally.
Inc time has passed when cheap meat
prOddctIOn VIII DC mainly due, as it has
Oeen, 10 cheap lands and food that cost
little or nothing. 1t is likely that in a
long series OF years, all kinds of meat
VIII be dearer than they have been. Ii
feeders gain, it viii be due less to natural
advantages for which they are not re-
sponsible, than to their own skill and
good management. There is yet an i'm
mense deal to learn, as is shown at all the
fat stock exhibitions.
The depression in the dairy industry
will not be unmixed evil if it results in
wedding out the poorer class of cows and
replacing them with those giving more
milk and butter
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stock, is paid back in a three-foId way
milk, growth of stock and the value OF
the manure, which last often balances the
irst cost of the food. 1t is in that re-
spect that stock-raising is superior to ex-
elusive grain growing.
A large yield of butter without a due
proportion of albuminoids being furnish
ed in the food, is out of the question.
Butter cannot be obtained from poor
food. If a certain amount of corn fod-
der must be fed, it must be combined
with strongly heterogeneous food. Moth
ing is better for milk cows than good
timothy hay. Linseed meal in proper
proportions, is a good heterogeneous food.
At the present price of pure-bred dairy
cows, few farmers feel able to buy them,
unless they intend to combine with dairy
ing the business of tine-strock raising.
The dairyman will, therefore, find the
plan OF starting with selected grade
COWS, and the pure-bred bull of good ped
igree, best apapted to a limited purse. A
herd of three-fourths or seven-eigths HoI-
stein or Jersey grade cows, can thus be
built up in few years.
An Illinois farmer claims that red pep
per tea given to hogs with symptoms of
cholera, will produce an effectual cure.
The hog that stands up square and
strong upon his feet, should be chosen
for a breeder in preference to a equity,
weak-kneed animal.
Whenever it is noticed that the hogs
eat gravel, it is a sign that something
they need is lacking. A few pieces of
coal or charcoal will probably be cure,
while the food should at the same time be
varied.
Be kind, merciful and bountiful to
those festive little pigs which have just
come to you With proper care the little
fellows will wipe out big chunk of the
mortgage in the fall.
1t is understood that the large packing
establishments at Chicago and elsewhere,
obtain as high as seventy-two per cent of
product from the gross weight of hogs,
from good conditioned animals, occasion
ally more, and that the yield runs down
to sixty-eight per cent for poor pork.
Good feeding consists in giving every
thing the hogs will eat without leaving
anything or losing their appetites. If the
animals appetites begin to flag, you will
know that it is best to reduce the amount
of grain fed and increase the amount of
lighter food, such as fruit, vegetables and
roots.
The boar should be selected to get pigs
to make meat. He should strike the be-
holder as a strong, grOwthy one, with
lots of appetite and vigor, and style"
which indicated business. We do not
want dude boars, neither do we want ex-
tremely boorish ones. We want fully de
veloped hoghood, just as we ought to
have the best types of manhood i'll anoth-
CT class of creation.